In 1757, theTupilanguage was banned by royal decree, although the language had already been overwhelmed by Portuguese spoken by the vast majority of immigrants that arrived from Portugal. When the Jesuits were expelled in the year 1759, Portuguese became thelingua franca, or language of the count...
Featuring some 130 works, 'Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism' is on view at the Royal Academy in London until April 21.
Hirsch Bedner Associatesbuilds the signature looks of today’sluxury brands, independent contemporary boutique hotels, spas, restaurants, urban resorts, and more. All around the world, each HBA interior results in a unique and sensitive response to location, architecture, and client vision. Lodha’...
Sauer was established in 1941 by Jules Sauer, the co-CEO’s grandfather, who fled Europe during World War I to Brazil and began working with precious gemstones like emeralds, tourmalines and amethyst, and developed unique carving methods that are still used by the brand today. “We always ...
“Today is the day to feel even prouder of being Brazilian,”Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawrote on X, “Pride for our cinema, for our artists and, primarily, pride for our democracy.” At the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, where Carnival parades...
The Gracies have since turned the sport into a remarkable family empire. Arguably the most successful has been Helio Gracie’s oldest son Rorion, who launched the Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC in the US in the 1990s, kicking off today’s hugely popular, multi-million dollar MMA industr...
In 1808, the Portuguese royal family moved to Rio de Janeiro, fleeing their home country after Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion, and additional European naturalists travelled Brazil and documented the use of medicinal plants (Brandão et al., 2011). The French botanist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire (...
The teacup Yorkshire Terrier, while considered a purebred today, initially wasn’t. Their original parents, the Clydesdale and now-extinct Paisley terriers,… Flat-Coated Retriever Forever young might be the best way to describe what the American Kennel Club calls the “Peter Pan of the… ...
All this vastness, almost deserted today, will give way to productive work". However, Santa-Anna Nery [35] warned of the need to study the Amazon before European exploration: "Civilization is sometimes synonymous with destruction. Man, in mastering Nature, mutilates it. He exterminates to ...
Full size image Many studies have addressed the role of life-history traits, e.g. family size, age of first son, age of marriage, among others traits important to fitness (Hotz and Miller1988; Pennington and Harpending1988; Kaplan1996; Hill and Kaplan1999; Ricardo2000; Pagliaro2002; Maiaet...